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Linux News for Sep 26, 2009

Intel Moblin 2.1 Preview(Sep 26, 2009, 20:04)Phoronix: "Intel has provided an early
development preview of the Moblin 2.1 operating system, which we
briefly tested out on a Samsung NC10 netbook. Here are the
screenshots and a few more details."

Best Equation Editor for Linux(Sep 26, 2009, 12:04)BerkeleyLUG: "What I always wanted was an
equation editor of OpenOffice that used Latex as the backend. Then,
I found it, and boy is it awesome: Ekee – developed by Ronan
Le Hy in France (don't you love open-source?)"

Expecting to Fail(Sep 26, 2009, 08:04)Linux Magazine: "How can you help to ensure
availability of a of a web site or other network service? We'll
look at some of the techniques at our disposal."

C++, the GPU, and Thrust: Sorting Numbers on the GPU(Sep 26, 2009, 02:04)Linux.com: "Version 1.0 of Thrust was released
in May 2009 and is available under the Apache License version 2.0.
There is a NOTICE file which also contains the Boost license and a
small paragraph by Hewlett-Packard Company. So it appears there is
really a mixture of open source licenses applied to the Thrust
library."

Editor's Note: Sexism and Other -isms Hold Back FOSS, part 2(Sep 26, 2009, 00:04)
FOSS is still a geekbeard ghetto, and it's going to stay that
way until some serious attention is paid to community-building, and
actively recruiting new people from all walks of life. It's not
good enough to leave it at "Whoever wants in badly enough, and to
heck with the rest."